Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses

, by Mazis, Glen A.

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ISBN: 9780791454183 | 0791454185
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2002

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Shows how our cultural misconceptions about the body distort its capacities and lead to personal and social ills.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Earthly Dance of Interconnection	p. 1
Moving Earth and Flowing Flesh	p. 1
Dancing versus Diabolical Logic	p. 7
Addicted to Self-Laceration	p. 12
Earthbody Sense	p. 17
Ceremonial Awareness	p. 23
Earthbody Dimensions	p. 33
We Are Time	p. 33
Sensing Enters the Earth	p. 44
Eroticism Truly	p. 57
Discordant Contemporary Rhythms	p. 77
Introduction: Detachment as a Curse upon the Land	p. 77
Ghouls: Our Love of Horror and Compulsion to Consume	p. 79
Vampires: Hunger for Experience and Fear of Intimacy	p. 87
Aesthetes: Obsession with Novelty and Control	p. 96
Who Has the Last Laugh?	p. 111
Cyberspace: Rootedness versus Being in Orbit	p. 119
Introduction: A Different Kind of Materialism	p. 119
Cyberspace: A Material and Embodied Place in the World	p. 121
The Virtual Is the Heart of Reality	p. 131
Cyborg Life: Protean Selves versus Fragmented Selves	p. 139
Deep-rooted Emotion versus Cyberspace Sentimentality	p. 156
Planetary Meaningfulness	p. 179
Introduction: The World Is Our "Out of Body" Body	p. 179
Animals and Humans as Part of the Same Dream	p. 181
Animals and Vitality, Morality, Spirituality, and Play	p. 190
Traditional Western Ethics as a Perverse Reaction to the Planet	p. 199
Rejoining the Planet	p. 211
An Earthbody Ethics of Achieving Presence and Co-presence	p. 211
Patterns of Perversity in Flight from Pain	p. 221
Rhythm's Power, Changing Destructive Patterns, and Finding Place	p. 227
A Dynamic Sense of the Depth of Surfaces	p. 235
Responsibility, Reverberating Resonance, and Joy	p. 241
Afterword: A Poem	p. 251
Notes	p. 255
Index	p. 263
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